Missing Child Turns Out to Be Missing Parrot

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Ralphie sounded like a child while he called "Daddy." A woman who thought she was helping a child helped reunite Ralphie and his owner.

Updated at 1:40 PM EDT on Monday, Jun 16, 2014

A Connecticut woman who raced to help when she heard a child calling for his or her daddy assisted in a very different reunion when she learned the calls were actually coming from a missing parrot named Ralphie.

The woman became concerned when she heard what she thought was a child calling “Daddy, Daddy” over and over again in the area of Holland Hill School, at 105 Meadowcroft Road, in Fairfield, Connecticut, at around 5 p.m. on Thursday, so she did what she thought she needed to to do and started looking for the child.

When she followed the sound, she did not find a missing child. Instead, she found a large green parrot 25 feet up in the tree, so she called Animal Control.